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Peri Mauer
cellist and composer
About Me
Hailed as an irrepressibly tuneful composer by New York Music Daily/Lucid
Culture, composer PERI MAUER has written works for solo instruments, chamber
music ensembles, orchestra, and theater. A native New Yorker, she holds degrees
from Manhattan School of Music and Bard College, and is a graduate of the High
School of Music and Art. Her music has received performances in Women
Composers Festival of Hartford, Bargemusic's Here and Now Winter and Labor Day
Festivals, New York Composers Circle Concerts of New Music at Symphony Space,
LeFrak Performing Arts Center, St. Peter's Church and St. Mark's Church, Music
With A View Festival at the Flea Theater for which she also served as cellist and
conductor, Composers Concordance Composers Play Composers Festival, Gamper
Festival of Contemporary Music in Bowdoin, ME, NYU Composers Forum, among
others. Her commissioned orchestral work All Along the Heights was recently
premiered by the Jackson Heights Orchestra to critical acclaim. A recipient of
ASCAP Plus Awards, she is honored to have been awarded a grant from New Music
USA for the premiere of her orchestral work Illuminations of the Night by the New
York Repertory Orchestra and Life on Earth for chamber ensemble for Music With a
View. She also recently received a commission from the Music Department of
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts to compose a
piece for the LaGuardia Junior Band, resulting in her symphonic band work Red
Sky. Other recent premieres include A Little New Year's Flair performed by Blair
McMillan in Bargemusic's Here and Now Winter Festival, At Home With Allen
Ginsberg: Five Songs for Baritone & Piano performed by baritone Daniel Neer and
pianist Christopher Berg, Trumpet Trio, premiered in Music From Good Shepherd
Concert Series, the revised version of her flute, harp, marimba trio Pixeliance
performed at Vassar College in harpist Ashley Jackson's Electric Lady concert
series, her string quartet Shadow Lake premiered by the Klang Quartet at St.
Peter's Church, and an encore performance of the solo trumpet version of Red Sky
at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford earlier this month. She was honored
to be a featured composer in the 2017 Composers Now Festival which took place
during the month of February 2017. Scholastic awards include a National Collegiate
Music Prize and membership into Pi Kappa Lambda, the National Honor Society of
Music.
Also a professional cellist, Ms. Mauer has worked with such groups as American
Symphony Orchestra, Encompass New Opera Theater, Radio City Music Hall
Orchestra, Darmstadt Ensemble, Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea, NYU
Contemporary Players, American Chamber Opera, Gateway Classical Music Society,
The Chelsea Symphony, Playwrights Horizons, New York Gilbert and Sullivan
Players, among many others, and can be seen playing her cello in the Golden
Globe and Emmy winning Amazon Prime TV series Mozart in the Jungle.
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